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Good documentation is important for any application, and it starts with documenting your code. It helps you and it helps your users. It's no secret that I believe documentation is a crucial element of ...

Explaining in one's native language (English, Spanish, Russian, etc.) what the source code of a program does. Throughout the history of programming, the range of program documentation ranges from ...

When I was a wet-behind-the-ears Unix user and programmer, the go-to response to any tech question was RTFM, which stands for "Read the F… Fine Manual." Unfortunately, this hasn't changed for the ...

Microsoft has released the source code for Zork I, II, and III under the MIT open-source license, making the legendary text adventure games freely available for anyone to study, learn from, and play. ...

Developers have every reason to not document their work unless they are forced to — and IT managers have every reason to not make them do it. One of the top enterprise IT complaints is that a serious ...